Undergarment



l. STERN.

UNDERGARMENT APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1920.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922 JNVENTOR [5/003 575/? A TTORNEY FiEl PATENT OFFICE.

ISIDOR STERN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

UN DERG-AIRMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

Application filed June is, 1920. Serial No. 389,917.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I, IsIDoR STERN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to undergarments. One object thereof is to provide an undergarment having a ventilated crotch portion which shall be simple and cheap to manufacture in a high degree.

Another object of this invention is to provide an undergarment of the character described which shall be of neat, comfortable and durable construction.

Other objects of this invention will be in part obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construct-ion hereinaft-er described and of which the scope of application will be indicated in the following claim.

In the accompanying drawings, in which is shown one of various possible illustrative embodiments of this invention,

Fig. 1 is a vertical elevation of an undergarment embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed view of the crotch portion of the garment; and

Fig. 8 is a detailed cross-sectional view of the crotch portion out along line 3+3 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing the invention has been shown as embodied in a ladies undergarment commonly known as bloomers. This type of garment when in use is usually closed about the wearer by elastic waist and end leg portions encircling the corresponding portionsofthe body of the female wear er. As a result the obnoxious odors at the crotch portion are trapped between the body and the garment making the latter extremely unsanitary and uncomfortable. The ventilated crotch construction hereinafter described is adapted to overcome in a large manner this difliculty.

Referring now in detail to the drawing, 10 represents the body portion of a pair of ladies bloomers and 11 the leg portions formed integral with the body portion from one piece of material. The body portion is Shirred at the waist line as at 12 about an elastic member in the usual manner for holdmg the garment to the body of the wearer. The open ends of the leg portions are similarly shirred as at 13, 13' to close said portions about the wearers legs.

The ventilated crotch construction will now be described. The crotch portion 14 is preferably formed from the same piece of material integral with the body and leg port ons. In order to provide the desired ventilation herein referred to, ventilating holes 15 are provided at suitably spaced intervals 1n the crotch portion. Having in view, as above stated, the fact that in a garment such as ladies bloomers the latter is closed about the body of the wearer and in consequence a high degree of ventilation made necessary, the ventilating holes are distributed preferably over a large area of the crotch portion and this is accomplished in the embodiment shown in the drawing by arranging the ventilating holes in concentric rows 16 formed in the arc of a circle as shown in the drawing. This construction provides a large ventilating area without perforating too large a portion of the crotch area and without in any way detracting from the neatness of the garment. In fact, the ventilating construction just described not only provides effective ventilation over a large crotch surface but enhances the neatness of the garment.

In order further to provide this ventilation at a very low cost of manufacture, the ventilating holes are preferably formed by means of a hemstitching machine, the stitching serving at the same time to secure on the inner face of the crotch portion the reinforcing strip 17 for providing added strength at that point of the garment, and thus increasing the life thereof. A further reinforcement is provided if desired by means of a seam 17 which extends midway around the crotch portion.

It will thus be seen that there is provided a garment in which the several objects of this invention are achieved and which is well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention and as various changes might be made in the embodiment above set forth, it is to beunderstood that all matter herein set forth or shown in the accompanying drawings is to be interformed integrally from one piece of 1napreted as illustrative and not in a limiting terlal, SEHCl crotch portion being provided 10 sense. with a plurality of rows of openings formed Having thus described. my invention, 1 therein by heinstitching. V

5 claim as new and desire to seem-e by Let Signed at New York city, in the county ters Patent: of New York and State of New York, this An undergermcnt having a body portion 16th day of June A. D. 1920. i and leg portions and a, crotch portion all ISIDGR STERN 

